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May 16, 2015 · Riley B. King, the legendary guitarist known as B.B. King, whose velvety voice and economical, expressive style brought blues from the margins to the mainstream, died Thursday night. He was...
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Blues legend B.B. King, who helped bring blues from the...
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Jul 19, 2022 · As revealed by the Academy of Achievement, one day, while King's bus was on the road in Texas, it crashed into a gas truck on a bridge. The blues legend wasn't in the vehicle at the time, and while none of his bandmates were severely injured, the gas truck driver sadly died.
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May 26, 2016 · By all accounts, King loved each of his kids dearly and, while alive, generously offered financial help. He bankrolled college tuitions, visited children in prison and set up trust funds. But the...
Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B. B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
May 26, 2016 · But we haven’t received a dime since he died,” says Riley B. King, B.B.’s son, 67. “We got a lawyer, and we are trying to fight and get what belongs to us.” The legal fight began within...
Sep 2, 2021 · The renowned bluesman, who died in 2015, spoke to Fresh Air in 1996 about growing up as the son of a sharecropper — and leaving the plantation as a young man to pursue a career in music.
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Sep 16, 2015 · But B.B. King, a giant of the electric guitar and the leading figure in blues, who surely had a fabled life, died on May 14 at age 89 from a series of strokes stemming from the type 2 diabetes that he’d battled for decades.
